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If your child’s new language and altered values horrify you, and you see them in direct opposition to what you carefully teach at home, you certainly aren’t alone. Parents of all faiths are pulling their children out of the public schools to teach them at home, precisely because they want those early foundations to stay solid. It’s hard to compete when your child stays away from you for six hours a day. Bringing them home to school allows you to gently reintroduce and reinforce those values and traditions that guide your life.

Homeschooling your child for religious reasons gives you several options. You can

 Locate tradition-specific curriculum. You may even be able to find a complete curriculum from science to history tailored to your particular belief system. Chapter 22 points you toward religious curriculum options.

 Incorporate religious instruction into your day as part of your class structure. Use religious or secular materials for all subjects as you choose. If you select secular books, this means tacking an additional subject — religion — onto your day along with your state’s requirements, but if you homeschool your children for religious reasons, this won’t be a big deal to you.

You may find that you need to alter adult materials or group curriculum, but as more people in your tradition begin to homeschool, your community will respond with materials written for you. (Or if you are adventurous and knowledgeable, perhaps you can write them yourself.)